Section 163
Taking gratification by personal influence with public servant
of Penal Code
Whoever accepts or obtains, or agrees to accept or attempts to obtain, from any person, for himself or for any other person, any gratification whatever, as a motive or reward for inducing, by the exercise of personal influence -
(a)
any public servant to do or to forbear to do any official act;
or
(b)
in the exercise of the official functions of such public servant -
(i)
to show favour or disfavour to any person; or
(ii)
to render or attempt to render any service or disservice to any person with the Government, or with any public servant, as such.
shall be punished with imprisonment for a term not exceeding 7 years and fine.
A person who receives pay for arranging and correcting a memorial addressed to
Government, setting forth the services and claims of the memorialist, or a paid agent for a condemned criminal who lays before the Government statements tending to show that the condemnation was unjust, are not within this section, inasmuch as they do not exercise or profess to exercise personal influence.
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